And oh, the lamentations over (in Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s phrase) “the spark of humanity” within MS-13 members, or the sorrowful wailing over calling “any human being” an “animal” are sanctimonious, particularly the CNN opinion person who blasted the President for calling any human being an “animal.” That person, it turns out, referred to President Trump in October 2016 with these words: “Should Donald Trump drop out of the race? Yes. He should drop out of the human race. He is an animal. Apologies to animals.”
So there you have it: In the world of the progressives: it is OK to distort someone’s words to apply to people to which he was not referring; and it is fitting to cast a political candidate as an animal; but it is insulting to use that term to describe savage, brutal members of a violent, murderous gang. And if that isn’t enough of a double standard for you, we will take it up another step by positing that there are very few progressive mayors, police chiefs and district attorneys, or journalists, for that matter, who have never referred to brutal criminals, rapists and murderers as “animals.”
If this type of manufactured indignation over something that the President never said in the first place continues, he is likely to win in 2020 by a bigger margin than last time, because the voters are figuring out that in the case of President Trump, “Half the lies his opponents tell about him aren’t true.”